2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A synchronic and diachronic study of American and British legal discourses for ESP in legal education based on corpus linguistics.
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20520553
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Rikkyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 司法英語 / アメリカ連邦最高裁判所判例 / イギリス貴族院判例 / 共時的変遷 / 通時的変遷 / Biber(1988) / ESP / コーパス言語学 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project has investigated the historical progress of British and American legal discourses over 200 years and clarified the synchronic and diachronic differences of these two legal discourses. The research has been done within the framework five dimensions proposed in Biber(1988), and clarified the lexico-grammatical features which have been characteristically used in British and American legal discourses over 200 year. This project has found that American and British legal discourses have followed uniquely different historical progress, and that 1) noun phrases have become more elaborate and complicated, 2) nominalizations have been on the increase, and 3) passivizations have been on the decrease.
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Research Products
(5 results)
